The princess commissioned Mr Jaubert for the job after he sensationally executed his own escape from the city following failed business dealing that resulted in a cancelled passport.

He took off in a boat after posing as a woman, wearing a garment that concealed his identity.

“I was invisible. It doesn’t matter if you’re pretty, or ugly, or fat,” Mr Jaubert said.

“Once you wear the abaya, you become invisible - I know, I experienced it.”

He claims the Indian Coast Guard raided the getaway yacht despite the fact they were still in international waters. It was a harrowing ordeal, Mr Jaubert told 60 Minutes.

“When they attacked us, it was brutal. I mean, brutal,” he said.

“They hit me. Blood was pouring out of my head.”

But it wasn’t just those on the boat clued in on Princess Latifa’s escape.

Australian Radha Stirling, who runs human rights group Detained in Dubai, said the princess was in contact with her in the lead up, and throughout her escape.

Ms Stirling said she was alarmed to receive a phone call from Latifa on the yacht before she disappeared.

“It was very concerning when Latifa telephoned me and said, ‘I can hear gunshots. I can, you

know, there’s people outside… help me, help me’,” Ms Stirling said.

Australian Radha Stirling, who runs human rights group Detained in Dubai, received a shocking phone call from Latifa while she was on the yacht. Picture: Channel 9 / 60 MinutesSource:Supplied

British human rights lawyer David Haigh has taken Princess Latifa’s case to the United Nations. Picture: Channel 9 / 60 MinutesSource:Supplied

Mr Jaubert and Ms Jauhianien were thrown in a Dubai jail after disastrous operation, and Ms Stirling said if Princess Latifa’s video hadn’t been released to the media, it could have been the end of them.

“It’s my strong belief that without the press coverage, without the spotlight on this case, that

perhaps they would have been killed, or certainly they would still be in the secret prison.”

British human rights lawyer David Haigh, who has experienced torture in Dubai, is looking after the case.

Mr Haigh said he was electrocuted and beaten severely by authorities in the well-heeled city after he was arrested over a financial dispute, but was later acquitted.

He has taken Princess Latifa’s case to the United Nations, and said the mission was not fabricated.

“You know, the evidence is all there. You know, it’s not just us, now,” Mr Haigh said.